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KARL BARTOS OFF the RECORD CD / LP (180G Vinyl) Plus CD / Download Release Date: March 15Th 2013 KARL BARTOS OFF THE RECORD CD / LP (180g vinyl) plus CD / download Release date: March 15th 2013 OFF THE RECORD – THE NEW ALBUM FROM KARL BARTOS, Label: Bureau B EX-KRAFTWERK Cat no.: BB079 Karl Bartos’ new album is an audio-visual sensation! Lost Distributor: Indigo for many years, some of his early music has been CD 974282 reconceived and re-contextualised in a thrilling modern First run of the CD Version will setting. Here’s the story: during Kraftwerk’s heyday Karl have a 44 Page Booklet, later Bartos wrote – off the record – a secret acoustic diary. Versions will have a 20 Page Based on his musical jottings – rhythms, riffs, hooks, Booklet sounds, chords and melodies – this is what he has come up EAN: 4047179742825 with today: twelve brand new, exciting, timeless songs. LP 974281 KARL BARTOS – THE MELODY MAKER Standard Vinyl Version EAN: 4047179742818 Karl Bartos is well-known as one-quarter of the “classic” LP 955821 (ltd Vinyl, 1000) Kraftwerk line-up. Many of their most influential rhythms and limited Vinyl Version with 20 memorable melodies were actually conceived in his home studio. Page Booklet, Gatefold They would later be used on an unstoppable succession of hits EAN: 4047179558211 from the Düsseldorf band as they ascended to the lofty heights of popular music culture. As a major contributor to The Man-Machine (1978) and Computer World (1981) Bartos has had a decisive influence on Kraftwerk’s Tracklisting: music. Rolling Stone author Mike Rubin says of this years: “there's something timeless and universal about their songwriting 01. Atomium of this period.” 02. Nachtfahrt 03. International Velvet The Kraftwerk team went on to achieve worldwide success and 04. Without A Trace Of Emotion cult status: in 1982 The Model became a UK number 1. The track 05. The Binary Code has become a classic in the history of music, along with The 06. Musica Ex Machina 07. The Tuning Of The World Robots, Metropolis, Neon Lights, Numbers, Pocket Calculator, 08. Instant Bayreuth Home Computer, Tour de France, Musique Non-Stop and The 09. Vox Humana Telephone Call. Kraftwerk have been one of the most sampled 10. Rhythmus artists of all time, and there have been countless cover versions 11. Silence of their songs. In 2005, perhaps the biggest rock band of the time 12. Hausmusik Coldplay incorporated the melody from Computer Love into their hit Talk. Almost all of the group’s best-known tracks date back to the “classic” line-up. In 2012 Kraftwerk performed a retrospective of this repertoire in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promo contacts: Karl Bartos left the band in 1990. Subsequently he became an Bureau B, Matthias Kümpflein independent producer and writer – for his project Electric Music, Tel. 0049-(0)40-881666-63, as a solo artist, and also together with fellow friends and [email protected] musicians – Bernard Sumner (New Order), Johnny Marr (The • Cover/press kit download: www.bureau-b.de/karlbartos.php Smiths) and Andy McCluskey (OMD). • Artists homepage: www.karlbartos.com In 2004 he co-founded the Master of Arts course “Sound Studies – Acoustic Communication” at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where he was a visiting professor, teaching Auditory Media Design up until 2009. OFF THE RECORD – THE ALBUM Discography: 1975 Radio-Activity For Off the Record, Karl Bartos has opened up his music archive for the very first time. He rediscovered and analysed hundreds of tapes, piles of sheet music, and years of digital media. Inspired by his acoustic diary and adding his experience as a composer and producer, he has created twelve brand new songs – written and performed with masterly skill. 1977 Trans Europe Express It took him two years to accomplish this original Bartos album: iron crystal music, vocoder newspeak, robot sounds, digital glitch, techno pop, catchy melodies, electronic avant-garde, roaring silence, futurism, and, of course, those rhythms! Rhythms of brutal minimalistic impact as found on the much-sampled Numbers recorded three decades ago and described by Mike Banks of Underground Resistance as “the secret code of electronic 1978 The Man Machine funk.” ON TOUR – LIVE CINEMA For Bartos, music alone has never been enough! Fascinated by the interplay of image and sound Bartos also works with the 1981 Computer World medium of film – the latest example of which will be seen on the Off the Record tour in 2013. Forget about technical nostalgia in 3- D; instead tune into LiveCinema: 90 minutes of music and film – rhythmical, modern, intelligent. 1986 Electric Cafe 1991 The Mix 1993 Esperanto 1998 Electric Music 2003 Communication .
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